Violet Crosby
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Violet Crosby is a fictional character from the British sitcom "Rising Damp," known as the sister of landlord Rupert Rigsby.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Violet Crosby canonical | 2 |
| Violet Crosby in Vicious | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2689352 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Violet Crosby Context triple: [Frances de la Tour, portrayedCharacter, Violet Crosby]
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A.
Violet Barnes
Violet Barnes is a central character in the romantic comedy film "The Five-Year Engagement," portrayed as an ambitious academic whose prolonged engagement tests her relationship and personal aspirations.
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B.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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C.
Maria Andrews
Maria Andrews is an American woman known primarily as the wife of businessman Neil Bush, a member of the prominent Bush political family.
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D.
Vivian Ayers
Vivian Ayers is an American poet, cultural activist, and Pulitzer Prize–nominated author known for her work in arts education and African American cultural preservation.
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E.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Violet Crosby Target entity description: Violet Crosby is a fictional character from the British sitcom "Rising Damp," known as the sister of landlord Rupert Rigsby.
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A.
Violet Barnes
Violet Barnes is a central character in the romantic comedy film "The Five-Year Engagement," portrayed as an ambitious academic whose prolonged engagement tests her relationship and personal aspirations.
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B.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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C.
Maria Andrews
Maria Andrews is an American woman known primarily as the wife of businessman Neil Bush, a member of the prominent Bush political family.
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D.
Vivian Ayers
Vivian Ayers is an American poet, cultural activist, and Pulitzer Prize–nominated author known for her work in arts education and African American cultural preservation.
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E.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Rising Damp ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Rising Damp ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| relative | Rupert Rigsby ⓘ |
| sibling | Rupert Rigsby ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Violet Crosby Description of subject: Violet Crosby is a fictional character from the British sitcom "Rising Damp," known as the sister of landlord Rupert Rigsby.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.